Open AccessThinking Zinc: Mitigating Uranium Exposure on Navajo Land
Author(s) -
Ria Mazumdar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo147582
Subject(s) - navajo , uranium , zinc , environmental science , metallurgy , materials science , linguistics , philosophy
An innovative clinical trial uses “two-way participation” between Navajo and medical communities to study the impact of zinc on mitigating health effects associated with uranium mining.